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Kitchandro

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  1. On 08/04/2026 at 17:58, UniFox21 said:

    See I don't believe this.

    We are absolutely shite currently, not getting away from that at all. What I don't believe is the side winning the FA cup and consecutive 5th place finishes in the Prem didn't hold eachother accountable 

     

     

    Really? Because I remember that side being very talented but extremely soft and fell apart at the first sign of resistance. We were never a spirited or mature side under Rodgers.


    It was basically our thing to hammer opposition that was in disarray but suffer embarrassing defeats against worse teams with more spirit and organisation. We had annual collapses that lasted months. The seeds of failure were sewn in those years with a weak mentality and lack of fight.

  2. 5 hours ago, Rubbersoul said:

    Absolutely bang on. They’ve created a match going fanbase THEY want 

    Some of us could see it coming, although to be fair this is true across all football clubs in the modern era. It was already happening under Mandaric.
     

    Even back then I could see that football was drifting away from what I believed it was supposed to be - and the clappers, goal music, standing-shaming, gold on kits, social media tone, stadium rebranding and prices should all have been red flags over the years.

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  3. 2 hours ago, Ashley said:

    That is a fair comment however his tactics and game plans alone would win games. 

     

    He sees things others dont. Just look at the recent final against Arsenal going to a 424 false press and winning it high thats what won Man City the game. 

    He also managed to lose finals he should have won by trying to be too clever, Chelsea in the Champions League final springs to mind.

     

    Still, I do agree that he would keep this group up. Not because he’s an exceptional manager, but because he’s an above average one. Managers with personality and a tactical plan can get a few results out of an average squad and can change the atmosphere in the dressing room to do that.

     

    There just aren’t many of them in employment because the sport is obsessed with hiring ex-players instead of thinkers and leaders.

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  4. 3 minutes ago, Iwebema said:

    Hes not great, but I mean how many more managers are we going to blame when fingers should be pointed elsewhere. 

     

     

    It’s possible for both the players and the managers to be crap. No one can say we have a worse group of players than Sheffield Wednesday.
     

    If we’re blaming the players, whom the club recruited, well, the club also recruited the managers. It makes sense that we’d be consistently crap at employing the right people.
     

    If we can’t get a win against these Rowett should retire.

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  5. This is what happens in a system where the strongest can accumulate wealth exponentially. Football is reflective of society and all other industries. 
     

    People talk of wages being the problem, that’s true but the root cause is the amount of money that the biggest clubs accumulate. Lesser clubs cannot realistically compete by spending within their means. It doesn’t have to be that way, we could regulate it or even prevent it from being a business at all. But ‘yeh, but…’ is always on behalf of money, not people.

     

    Like everything in society, football has been ruined by money. I would argue that it’s such a farce, so corrupt, its competitors so removed from the average person, that only the most ostrich-like can convince themselves it has any human meaning or value anymore.
     

    Sport, unlike society, should be competitive. But that competition should be played out on the pitch alone, not on paper and in boardrooms. This was inevitable from the moment we decided to let football become professional, though the Premier League and Champions League sped it up. Greed always wins in a money-oriented world. 

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  6. 21 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

    What use is a game in hand to Portsmouth the way they’re playing? Have you seen their run-in? They’re down.

     

    Today was an opportunity missed but we gained ground on Portsmouth and Oxford, and didn’t lose any ground to Blackburn. West Brom’s win is annoying but overall our position is slightly less bleak than it was before the game. And the return of Lascelles is a major positive.

    We’re shit. Never mind about them, we need to make ground on them and we’re absolutely crap. How many must-win games have we had?

     

    Or are we just believe they haven’t considered we might go down yet? Yeh, actually, that’s what Top always says, I cannot only assume all the players assume we’ll be fine.

  7. On 15/03/2026 at 22:22, Danno said:

    It does seem that after riding the wave of the great escape and winning the league, Ranieri went back to being a poor manager once he got his own way 

     

    On 15/03/2026 at 22:38, TeamRocket said:

    Guess this settles it that it was NP who one us the premiership that seasons then CR did say he didn't do much and soon as he did players drop tools and rest is history. :) also shows its good to have a good foundation before anything else. Would love to have someone come in ans do something like this again build a solid base and build up from that.

    Do you know who I trust as the absolute gospel having watched every single game we played under Ranieri myself and witnessing the way we played under him and under Pearson the previous season when we nearly got relegated?

     

    Leonardo Ulloa.

  8. 27 minutes ago, LeePhilpottsBaldSpot said:

    I understand where you're coming from but I've always been a bit confused by this criticism.

     

    There was some gold on the home shirt but blue and white were hardly banished from the club's identity. I'd say the home kit was predominantly blue/white, away kit black/white, 3rd kit white/blue.

     

    (If King Power wanted to rebrand us gold instead of blue/white they wouldn't have made the home kit sponsor in massive white letters! :D)

     

    Lots to criticise King Power for but I really don't think they've 'goldwashed' the club's identity...

     

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    Several kits were all blue with gold trim, no white trim (shorts not shown on that graphic). The year we won the league being one example.

     

    I didn’t say they banished white completely , but they did reduce it in favour of the gold, which has been more or less a constant fixture to the extent where it could be viewed as our secondary colour. I’ve seen many people claiming metallic gold is now part of the club’s identity, that it’s associated with success, that they are, no joke, actually ‘nostalgic’ about it.

     

    Also I see people often get confused and say ‘we had gold before them’. Well, we had that ‘Fosse Gold’ on one away kit, which was basically beige. We’ve had a beautiful goldy yellow trim / away kit in the 90s as a one off, which still featured white. This specific metallic gold, however, was completely invented by King Power, and it’s often replaced white instead of just accompanying it.

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  9. 3 hours ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

    But you know Rowett isn’t suitable despite his championship experience?

    He’s proven himself to be an average Championship manager, yes. What you’re looking for is managers who haven’t proved that yet, managers who COULD be the next big thing.

     

    Granted we’re an unattractive proposition for established managers now, but not necessarily ones who need to make a name for themselves and have the talent to do so.

     

    If Rowett keeps us up then he’s done his job, but let’s not make the same mistake we made with Shakespeare. We know his ceiling.

     

    The obvious problem is you’d have to be desperate to work with King Power but we all know King Power aren’t going to appoint the right man anyway, so us coming up with a shortlist would just be for fun.

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